Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense. He was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry. James A. Perkins, professor emeritus of English and public relations at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, is the editor...See more

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense. He was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry. James A. Perkins, professor emeritus of English and public relations at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, is the editor of The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" and coeditor of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" Three Stage Versions; For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader; Southern Writers at Century's End; and the poetry collection Brother Enemy: Poems of the Korean War. Randy Hendricks is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile and a collection of short stories, The Twelfth Year and Other Times . He is also the coeditor of For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader. William Bedford Clark is a professor of English at Texas A&M University, the author of The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren , and the editor of volumes one and two of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren . See less